Loose-leaf binder



C. F. McBEE.

LOOSE LEAF BINDER. APPLICATIONFILED SEPT. 6. 1919.

Patented Nov. M, 1922.

Patented Nov. 14, 1922.

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CHARLES E. ivresiain, or A'rH Ns, OHIO, AssIGnor. TO THE McBEE sinner: co, A

. cortroanrron OF OHIO.

I LOOSE-LEAF BINDER.

App1ication filed September 6, 1919." Serial No. 322,005.

To allwhomlitmay concern: I v

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. MOBEE, citizen 'of the" United States, residing at Athens, in the county-of Athensandfitate of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loose-Leaf Binders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a loose leaf binder which may also operate as a permanent binder and yet is so constructed that sheets may be removed therefrom, or added thereto, quickly and easily.

My invention consists of certain details of construction hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of my file;

Fig. 2 shows a sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 shows a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the entire description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the reference numeral 10 is used to indicate the lower cover of my file and the numeral 11 the upper cover thereof.

The numeral 12 indicates a plate, provided with screw threaded lugs 13 and 14, projecting upwardly therefrom, said plate eing designed to rest on the top of the filed sheets. The said plate is also provided with orifices 15 designed to register with orifices punched in the sheets filed. A similar plate 16, orificed also to register with the perforations in the sheets, is designed to underlie the sheets and rest on the top of the under cover. The under cover is also perforated to register with the perforations in the plate 16. The upper cover is perforated to receive the screw threaded lugs 13 and 14 and also the headed nuts 17 and 18 respectively, which are designed to engage their respective lugs 13 and 14, and thus bind the upper cover 11 to the file, in the manner shown. The numeral 19 indicates my sheet binding means and is preferably constructed of a soft metal strap, wire or the like.

In practical operation the ends of the binding means 19 are threaded upwardly through the perforations in the under cover 10, the lower plate 16, the perforations in the sheets to be bound, and the perforations in the upper plate 12 and pulled tight the ends bent horizontally on the upper surface of the plate 12. The upper cover is then secured to the) plate 12 by means of the headed screw nuts engaging. andbeing set on their respective. screw lugs as shown, and this firmly clamps the ends of the binding means between the upper surface of the upper plate 12 and the lower surface of the upper cover 11.

The lower plate 16 may be entirely omitted if desired or it may be provided with screw threaded lugs to register with orifices in the lower cover and be held in place by headed screw nuts in the same manner I have illustrated for the upper cover, and in this event the binding means 19 would not pass through the lower cover but would be threaded only through the lower plate, sheets and upper plate, and the lower plate be thereafter secured, in the same manner as is now illustrated for the upper plate.

In my drawings I have chosen to illustrate two orifices to receive a 'U-shaped binding wire, but it is obvious several orifices could be used with one wire, or binding means, threaded back and forth through them, or a plurality of binding wires could be used, without departing from my invention the principal feature of which is the clamping of the bent wire, or wires, or whatever bind-. ing means is used, between a plate and a cover when the cover is in position thereon.

It is obvious from this construction it is a slmple and easy matter to remove any sheet from any position in the volume, or to add additional sheets when desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: i

l. A loose leaf binder comprising a lower cover perforated to register with the perforations in the sheets to be bound; a plate, orificed to register with the orifices in the sheets to be filed, designed to rest on the top of said sheets, and upwardly extending screw threaded lugs thereon; a binding means to be threaded through the orifices in the cover, sheets and plate, and to be doubled back on the upper surface of the plate; an upper cover orificed to receive the screw threaded lugs on the plate; headed screw nuts to engage the said lugs and secure the upper cover -to the plate, substantially as shown and described.

2. A loose leaf binder comprising a lower cover perforated to register with the perforationsin thesheets to be bound,-, a plate? orificedto register, with the orifieeshof the sheets to be filed, designed to rest on the top of said .sheets aubindinghmeanso to. be

threaded through the orifices in the,.cover,.

sheets and plate, and to be doubledback on the upper surface of the plate, upwardly ex: tending screw threaded lugs on saidplate, an upper cover perforatedatovreeeive said lugs, and means to secure said lugs to the cover, substantially .as shown and described.

3. A binder forhbinding loosevsheets comprising a lower cover. perforated to: register with the perforations in.ithe sheets to be: bound, a platewvhich underlies. the sheets 1 and-rests ontop of the under cover,: a similar plate which ,rests on the top.,- of,the sheets havingi upwardly projecting serewithreaded lugs there being orifices in said plates to register withthe orifices in the sheets to be bound,anupper cover perforated toreceive said screw threaded lugs, binding means to lie-threaded through the orifices in the under cover, sheets and plates and to be doubled backon the Kupper surface of the upper plate, and means to engage said lugs and bind the upper cover to securely clamp theends -of vthe binding means. v

' In testimony whereof; I :havesigned the foregoing specification.

GHARLESF; MOBEE. 

